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I suspect that if you fire off a xenon flash in a museum, even off a phone, you better be prepared to do some very fast talking in the next couple of minutes 😉 Extreme user cases aside, i loved my samsung galaxy s3 the colours on that screen were just gorgeous. I think perhaps there was added saturation but i loved it anyway lol. After much use, maybe some abuse i realized it now had its own inbuilt glow filter. Made for some dreamy photos of mums with daughters, daughters on horses, awesome stuff. For that reason i can't take smartphones seriously for photos, sooner or later the glass will get scratched and image quality takes a hit. I'm now on an Iphone 13 pro max, its a few years old now. I do enjoy the convenience that a smartphone with a camera adds to life, however for serious planned stuff, i'll grab a dslr. If a manufacturer, android or apple made a smartphone with a great camera and had a slidable lens cover i'd buy it in a heartbeat, please don't tell me such a beast exists as i don't need a new smartphone yet!! btw i'm not talking about adding a hard case that has a lens cover either. I want it built in or removable like a camera lens, selfish i know but i want my cake and eat it too.

yes its a fl lm3. I can just make out the model number in a different photo. No idea if it came bundled with the camera. there's no box for the flash only a soft fabric pouch in the photos. Your right about cables, after market cables can be a minefield. Years ago my blue yeti usb cable died relatively quickly, maybe within 6 weeks.. replacing that with something that works took three different attempts. I recently bought two different 5 pin midi cables. After doing a continuity test with a multimeter, neither was ever going to work as the wrong pins had been wired up. I anticipated that and had bought extra xlr sockets to rewire with anyway.

yes olympus flash, not sure of the guide number as it doesn't look overly big. but some flash is better than no flash. I presume original cable it has those toroidal rings things surrounding the cable. there's also a plastic molded thingy that i presume secures the cable to camera.

here's an interesting tibit. I bought a uv torch in the 365nm range i think. for illuminating rocks or rocks that fluoresce under uv light. After playing around with the only rock specimen i own (at the moment) i started pointing it at everything else in the room (as you do... ) Surprisingly the olympus e-m10 ii has small bits in the plastic housing that fluoresce. I know surprised me too.. I guess there all sorts of material in plastic, maybe even recycled stuff but i'm speculating there. i should get some photos for posterity. By the way, there's an Olympus e-m1 iii body on the way. Comes with a v30 card and flash. Low shutter count of 1000 photos. looks mint in the photos. Must have picked a bad day to go against the us dollar, or ebays estimate of currency transactions is extremely optimistic... Because there was definitely a thump in the guts when i clicked buy it now and the price jumped up about $120 or perhaps buyers remorse kickin in lol.

Thanks for that. Thats about what i was expecting. I can run my fingers parallel to the camera and i can get them to about 50mm from the front of the camera body before i can see them in the frame. Perhaps it will be like you said and the field of view will be slightly smaller. Only one way to find out...

its been a little while... I have rehashed everything looked around a bit more and come to the conclusion that the OM-D E-M1 iii will be joining the little gang of cameras that i own. It can be the big brother to the em10 ii that i have. I have the artisans 4mm fisheye lens and the sirui 24mm 1.33 anamorphic in mft. Oddball lens choices i know, however i like the quirkiness. There is a couple more normal type mft lenses and a whole bunch of vintage lenses that i can adapt to it as well. Considered the Panasonics however they have one small quirk which made them less suitable for use in the animation department. Probably would have been great for video. Also considered the canons but i'm just nonplussed on canon at the moment and that's just me i guess. would like to have gone a little more video centric however i don't do a lot of video. I kinda rationalized it out in my head, thinking that i have few interesting mft lenses and some normal ones, that the upgraded m1 iii aught to do them justice and i don't need to spend any more on lenses. I do have one niggle perhaps, the artisans 4mm has a 225 degree field of view, not a problem on the em10 i have. I also tend to use something like a monopod to keep my hands out of the way with a remote trigger. Its just easier to give my hands something to do and i dont have to think about it or take photos with protruding limbs in them. The m1 has a more protruding hand grip, curious to know if it will be a problem on the m1, anyone have any experience on the matter ? I can always do the same with the m1 i guess.

did you get it sorted ? i have a vague memory that i could turn mine off on the mavic 2 pro as it was the only way i could get it to fly through a 2 meter high natural stone arch.

Since the guy is already a billionaire, i doubt that right or fair is going to come into play. Especially when more millions / billions are at stake. There's no way he going to stand there and say, what would Jesus do ? It is kinda ironic through, the movie studio's have been tying up movie rights, soundtracks, copyright for decades and longer, now their crying foul.

Anyone using an unconventional lens out there ? I have the 7artisan 4mm 2.8 mft lens. I quite like it, although its much too easy to get a finger / head / foot in the picture. Its also fiddly to focus even with peaking. It seems to me the plane of focus isn't actually accurately represented by the peaking. There's more testing to do yet and i need to get my brain accustomed to what the peaking is telling me and what the range on the lens is telling me and maybe the fstop / dof is contributing to the issue as well. Probably the nicest image so far but still away to go. I do have some thoughts on using it for video however i figure i need to get my brain working with images side of things first. I also have some thoughts on mounting everything to a monopod but thats another story. Probably when more parts arrive to build it up.

You had a lot of nice things to say about the codecs and other stuff in the Panasonic GH5 Review and exclusive first look at Version 2.0 firmware - EOSHD.com - Filmmaking Gear and Camera Review Has anything changed ? because i'm almost sold on a gh5.

That might work as a simple external monitor. The thing with live view as i understand it is it gives you a constant image which gives you the peaking, magnification and dragonframe takes that and adds onion skinning. Which is used for your shot setup. Feeding a hdmi image back into dragonframe will probably require a capture card as well, more expense and there's a paragraph on the site which says its all doable, but they don't recommend going down that path.

yer i much prefer 80's music. although the delorean will need some extra storage space as i want to take a bit more than my toothbrush with me. 🙂

Not sure what kind of look that guy is wearing, however its a hard (no thanks) from me. i refuse to watch anything with such dumb look to it. Maybe... i miss some interesting content but i can live with that.

Everytime i come here, i learn something new. While the e-m5ii is supported on the dragonframe site. The e-m5iii is not, i thought it was because, it was newer perhaps, turns out olympus sort of down rated the e-m5 iii from "professional status" and quietly dropped the tethering and a couple of other things... There's a lot of things to like about the e-m5 iii but the fact its doesn't tether any more is a dealbreaker for me. I did find a site that suggested the olympus protocols has been reverse engineered, so you could have your cake and eat it too, however installing the libraries and getting it set up and running robustly with an e-m5iii is not a course i want to pursue. I'm of two minds at the moment, considering its 2024. I'd like a later model sensor. Buying an e-m5 ii is a step backwards with its 16mp and ordinary video. it does however tether, the e-m5 iii doesn't. So i am looking at an E-M1 Mark II, new in box been used as a shop display, very low shutter count and new warranty at a price i can afford. The e-m1 iii jumps up a little to steeply for me. Couple of people have mentioned om-log to be a bit iffy. Thats potentially a problem but since i haven't done much with video. Is it likely to be worse or horribly much worse than what's already on youtube ? I think i would be just another sheeple amongst the herd 🙄 i was liking the g9 for a while as well until mercer pointed out an issue with refresh rates and live view which would be a problem when integrated with dragon frame. I'm kinda liking the gh5 for the video side of things i can also find a gh5 at a price i like, the gh6 prices goes up pretty steeply. Unless more info comes to light in the next week or so i'll probably watch a few more vids and toss a coin.

I have not seen the fall guy yet and cant remember the lee majors series, i guess i must of watched some of it but nothing sunk in, it seems lol. Bladerunner 2 was pretty good and i did enjoy it as well. I guess in some ways sequels have alot of expectations to live up too and sadly its not always achieved imho. The cinema where i go has some sort of odd silvery / shiny screen, occasionally i can see the shininess of it behind the movie which ruins it momentarily (for me anyway) other than that i do like seeing movies on a big screen. Maybe its the nostalgia of a night out, as that doesn't happen much anymore or more likely the popcorn. I guess its a sign of progress the screen, whatever it is but it is annoying when i notice it and it take me out of the moment. Thers alot of threads on here about the cinema look in a digital world and how to best emulate it. If i'm honest most of it goes right over my head. As an example, reading back through the old threads there was the og blackmagic camera which was quite filmic if my understanding is correct. Then the p4k which seemed a bit ordinary in most peoples opinions, the 6k seems more popular and theres a new physis or something. No idea how that stands compared to the others yet or how filmic it is. But their all digital, they can look abit like film but they won't ever be film. I'll probably alienate someone on here for saying that... Not that i'm a fan boy but it was a pretty big thread. I love my digital camera, i can take a million photos and only keep one . They look great on my computer screen, i have never printed one, nor am i likely to. I could do the same with film but not cheaply. My point being film is film it's a totally different medium to digital, but i can understand why we want to emulate it. I think in some ways we are all a bit caught up on the "filmic / cinematic look". Most of us lived through that age, its understandably we want to go back there with "cheaper Equipment" or perhaps the "most life like equipment". Manufactures certainly have a vested interest in providing such a thing 🙂 As an outsider looking in and somewhat casual about it all, i cant help but wonder if we aren't chasing our tails at times for a cinematic look 🙃